WEEKLY MESSAGE: March 23, 2022

 

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

The Twenty-second Saying (Part 7)

And The Man continued addressing the Companions of The Way.

“‘To return, briefly, to the discussion concerning the earthly powers and earthly churches, during the days of Jesus there was national Judaism with a standing army under the rulers of the land. In this case, the ruler was Herod, who was in league with Rome. And they were caught up in the life of politics, society, the military, and, of course, economics. Jesus, being of the Essene Order, or the Nazarene Order, did not believe in any of these things of the world. In fact, he turned away from the world. He was not interested in politics or national Judaism except in reforming it into a spiritual religion. He was a peacemaker. There was a vast difference between the ordinary man and woman or the ordinary priest or rabbi – Pharisee or Sadducee – and the man Jesus and his followers.’

“And the same Companion of The Way asked yet another question. ‘Jesus turned away from the world but he did believe in his own accomplishments, did he not?’ The Man answered saying, ‘Yes, he did believe in those accomplishments achieved during his teaching career because in living The Way and in fulfilling prophecy, he was obeying God’s Will, not his own will.’

“And then he turned to the other Companions and said, ‘The high priests and the rabbis of the Sanhedrin believed that the sacrifice of a bull or a ram with the shedding of the blood on the altar was an atonement to God. They actually believed that blood gave access to God. Jesus taught that God is spirit. One must be reborn spirit and live The Way in order to see The Image and hear The Word. This idea was vastly different from that of a man or a woman participating in animal sacrifice, observing the sacrifice which atoned for their sins, without any effort on their part at all. This practice gave the priest a power to intercede for the race, and that priest was responsible for speaking for the people, in this case, the Jews, with God. The concept was completely foreign to the Teacher Jesus.

“‘The heresies of worshiping false gods, praying to human saviors, metaphysical speculations, pursuing violence in the Name of God, abstinence from flesh food, following strict dietary measures, invocations, rites, and ceremonies that imitate sacrifices to god or a savior should all be abandoned. Only by living The Way, imitating the eternal Goodness of God, and by having a pure heart – a spirit of Light – so that one’s Goodness and Light will spread to all the world for the benefit of humans everywhere, is the True One God exemplified. Jesus attempted to teach this. And many have endeavored to follow these teachings. But the world of religion, of polities, of economics and society will not tolerate it for a moment, because it glorifies God and exposes false religions and the ways of the world for what they are.

“‘If people of the world really understood the evil results of their actions, they would turn away in horror. Unless we of the regenerate Church instruct the human family in the Life of Righteousness and free them from worldliness, Evil will overcome the world. Love – love of God more than anything – is the salvation of the world. The evil and sorrow of the world are the result of the perpetuation of humanness with all its error, selfishness, ignorance, envy, and desire for worldly things. Above all things, the world loves to hate and to perpetuate this hatefulness by enforcing it upon others.

“‘Earthly man and woman are nurtured by the earth: they receive their food and water from the earth, they are made in the image of the earth, and they serve an earthly god. For example, the Jewish concept of a jealous god, a god that is wrathful, a god that destroys his enemies, a god that kills, is not that of a divine, spiritual God. That is one of the most pagan concepts that has ever been recorded, and yet the Christian Church, having borrowed scripture from the Jews, mistakenly believes that god to be the True God. That was not the God of Jesus, who was killed because he preached about a different God. Christians today are unable to believe this truth.

“‘The god of the earth, the god of nature, feeds on blood. It is the way of life on earth. But the God of Goodness, the God of Light, the God of Truth, the God of Justice, has nothing whatever to do with blood or flesh or animals of sacrifice. Nor does God need or want any other kind of intermediary or priest attempting to bribe Him. Therefore, there is nothing one could sacrifice to God that would be worthy, or that one could give God that could even be considered as a reasonable gift. The only thing God wants is Love and the only way one can show Love to God is by living The Way and looking upon The Image and hearing The Word of God. It is that simple, yet it is too complicated for humankind to understand. People want to worship a nature god, have a god of war, a god of power. That is the problem with worldly religion.

“‘And, if the people of the world do not change, they must reap the penalty for their actions, as did the Jews, for example. Where the Hebrews are concerned, the Jewish race is part of the past; that is, as a chosen people of God holding to the Covenant. The great danger for the world is to be found in the possibility of worldly religion being outlawed by the secular nations of the world, for the civil authorities are far better able to serve the material needs of the people than a secular religion. This possibility poses a danger for a True Religion of spirit, for it would not be able to exist if all religions were outlawed.’”

Again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene
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JANUARY 2022: Intercession & Memorial Services

 

 

 

JANUARY 2022

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Shelly Deusenberry
Kelly Turner †
Reverend Steve Larson
Tomizou and Akiko Sonoda
Senator Harry Reid †

15
Jim Eaglesmith
Nick Gonzalez

19
Anne Ferrentino

22
Anne Ferrentino
Yoshiaki Kurioka †

26
Samuel Reece †

29
Samuel Reece †

† indicates Memorial Prayer

 



Services for the Week of March 19, 2022

 

 

 

Saturday, March 19, 2022
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Lector: RC Ted Staver
Cantor: Rev. Francine Petrovich
Reader: Rev. Harold Boulette

 

 

 

Sunday, March 20, 2022
6:59 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral Church of the Americas
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:45
Sunrise: 7:14
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

 

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Americas    RC Robert Petrovich
Church of  the New Covenant    Rev. Francine Petrovich

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 23, 2022
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RM Elizabeth Reece

 

 

Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Peter Foust

 



WEEKLY MESSAGE: March 16, 2022

 

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Birth of The Child, Jamil (1959)

As we remember the birth of The Wondrous Child of Light, Jamil, 63 years ago, it is fitting that we read his Sayings. And we continue.

The Twenty-second Saying (Part 6)

“Then the second disciple to speak presented another question. ‘Does the “point” where spirit and matter are connected represent the archetype?’ The Man answered saying, ‘There must always be an intermediary. In other words, between the Light Angel and Man as a Dark Angel – between his spiritual Consciousness or Soul and the physical man – is the archetype, that is, archetypal Man, the first Man, the first great Being that was neither spirit nor matter. And we originated from this archetype. We did not originate ourselves from spirit. Our father is not necessarily Adam, nor is Eve our mother. Our mother and father – our parent – is really the Dark Angel that evolved, or descended, or fell into matter.

“‘As one goes into the sun, within the manifestation of light there is a “center” wherein manifests an issuance from another dimension, which is the source of the Sun of Righteousness, not of the physical universe. The material sun is not the Sun of Righteousness. The Spiritual Sun, or the Sun of Righteousness, is a spiritual Power. One goes through the physical sun on the mental and physical level, and on the psychic level one goes through even greater suns because all light from the sun is linked to a parent sun or to a greater sun, or a series of suns. And as the psychic or Kalos nature evolves, it then returns to the spirit. And one sees the True Light of God and The Image and hears The Word. Thus, there is a process by which one returns to the Original State.’”

I encourage you to light a candle today. Thank you.

Again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene
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Services for the Week of March 12, 2022

 

 

 

Saturday, March 12, 2022
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Lector: RM Rebecca Willis
Cantor: Rev. Michael McIntyre
Reader: Rev. Mary Foust

 

 

 

Sunday, March 13, 2022
7:08 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE *
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:15
Gate: 6:55
Sunrise: 7:23
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
* Daylight Savings Time begins 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning

 

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the End Times    Rev. Robert Roy
Church of  the Christian Churhes Rev. Noriko Roy

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 16, 2022
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.

 

 

Friday, March 18, 2022
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev. Noriko Roy

 



WEEKLY MESSAGE: March 9, 2022

 

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

 

 

 

 

March 9, 2022

The Twenty-second Saying (Part 6)

“And another Companion of The Way addressed his Teacher asking, ‘As I understand the Sayings and your explanation, the vital human essence, the élan vital or pneuma, becomes personalized and objectified in the person as a union with God through the Sun of Righteousness is made, so that Image then becomes the Image of the Son of God, and then it is the reflection – not I, but Thou with me – that does these things. Is that correct?’

“And The Man replied, ‘Let us use the allegorical Garden of Eden as an example. Man and woman were created in the Image of God. They had a spiritual Body that lived off the Love, Light, Truth, Goodness, Mercy, Justice, and Righteousness of God. That was all the food required by their Soul or Light spirit. They were Angels of Light. God’s Presence was sufficient to give them birth and to sustain them. Man and woman then were tempted by the Devil, the representative of the Powers of Darkness, which, again, is an allegorical story. We might ask ourselves, “Where did the Devil come from? Is he equal to God? Where did God come from? Who created Him?” We could go on with such endless philosophical, metaphysical questions, but they are not important because this is an allegory.

“‘When man and woman were tempted and they began to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil instead of from the Tree of Life, they fell out of step with God. In other words, to use a familiar analogy, it was as if their frequency was changed, the band on their radio frequency range was changed and they lost the station. Consequently, they could no longer hear the Word nor receive the Nourishment from God. And they were then forced, if we recall from the apocryphal New Testament writings, to drink water which made them nauseous. Thus, they became dependent upon substance outside of God, and God removed Himself from Adam and Eve in their original state. As a consequence, by eating food, man and woman became like the food and, having eaten that food, died. Life became a state in which food gave life and took life. Of course, we can ask the question, “Where did the food come from?” Again, it is all an allegory. There is a great truth locked up in the story of the Garden of Eden, an ancient story that antedated the Hebrew writings under Moses.

“‘To review, we have a pre-existent condition in which man and woman were spirit living off the Presence of God. Then God withdrew Himself, and man and woman lived off food and degenerated into material creatures, as did their descendants. However, they still had the potential of the spirit, because the spirit is what gives life. The body does not give life of itself. As material beings, man and woman are Images of the great spiritual Soul, and all living things of the world are images of man and woman. It is not the other way around, even though it appears that way.

“‘Once God had withdrawn Himself, God promised to reveal Himself a second time. Now God is revealing Himself a second time. And, in having revealed Himself, manifests the Image of Himself – not His True Self but an Image – which is the Sun of Righteousness filled with His Word; and that Image becomes the intercessor, the mediator, between man and woman and God. The First-Born Son of God into the world was the Sun of Righteousness.

“‘There are other Creation stories that go further back than the story of the Garden of Eden which tell of Man being created as Light – all Light – which was the Sun of Righteousness. But out of the Sun of Righteousness came a multitude of images. And then, out of these images came forth other images, like our physical sun, for example, without which life could not exist on this planet, even for a fraction of a second. Therefore, all life on the planet is an image of the sun. And just as that sun is an image of greater suns, and these greater suns are images of other greater suns and galaxies and so forth, eventually there is a median point – a “point” at the borderline where spirit and matter are connected, where an Image begins to take place in the physical dimension.’”

Again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene
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The Latimer School at 643 Ralston Street / Reno, Nevada

 

 

In 1948 Charles F. Cutts, a long-time member of the Latimer Art Club and a founding trustee of the Nevada Art Gallery, willed his house and estate to the Nevada Art Gallery. The Art Gallery received Cutt’s home at 643 Ralston Street in Reno, Nevada in 1949 upon his death.

643 Ralston Street is the address of the offices of the International Community of Christ and Cosolargy International and the Chapel of The Holy Child. This property was acquired by the Church from the Nevada Art Gallery in 1979, including the expansion that served as the gallery itself, and in 1981 Church members constructed the Chapel in place of the gallery.

The story of the building that houses our offices is part of the book The Latimer School: Lorenzo Latimer and the Latimer Art Club. We have excerpted the pertinent pages of the book (pp. 29-44) and are making them available to our members with permission form the publisher. The pages provide an interesting backstory to the building that has housed our offices for over forty years.

 

Latimer School.Building.643Ralston.Excerpt

 

The Nevada Museum of Art, on its 90th anniversary, has organized an exhibition that brings together landscape paintings by the watercolor painter Lorenzo Latimer, alongside those of the artists he mentored, including Mattie S. Conner, Marguerite Erwin, Dora Groesbeck, Hildegard Herz, Nettie McDonald, Minerva Pierce, Echo Mapes Robinson, Nevada Wilson, and Dolores Samuel Young. These artists joined together to formally found the Latimer Art Club in 1921. The Latimer Art Club is still active and celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2021. The exhibit is being presented July 31, 2021 – March 27, 2022.

The Latimer Art Club was the founding volunteer organization of the Nevada Art Gallery, which is known today as the Nevada Museum of Art. The San Francisco-based painter Lorenzo Latimer first visited Fallen Leaf Lake on the south side of Lake Tahoe in summer 1914. It was there that he began to teach annual plein air painting classes. In 1916, he was invited by two students to teach a painting class in Reno. He returned for the next twenty years and became a cherished member of the Northern Nevada arts community.

The watercolor paintings by Latimer and his students of the Truckee Meadows, Washoe Valley, Lake Tahoe, and Pyramid Lake are foundational to the history of Northern Nevada’s outdoor painting tradition. By 1931, the Latimer Club joined together with the visionary humanist scholar and scientist Dr. James Church to establish the Nevada Art Gallery, now the Nevada Museum of Art. The founding group planned art exhibitions and interdisciplinary public programs for the nascent museum for many years.

The exhibition is co-curated by Nevada art specialist Jack Bacon and Ann M. Wolfe, Andrea and John C. Deane Family Senior Curator and Deputy Director. The exhibition will be accompanied by a major book with an introduction by Wolfe and an essay by Alfred C. Harrison, a nineteenth-century painting scholar and art historian with a special emphasis on California art.

 

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Cosolargy Newsletter February 2022 Issue 3

 

 

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Services for the Week of March 5, 2022

 

 

 

Saturday, March 5, 2022
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Lector: RC Peter Foust
Cantor: Rev. Dorothy Kubiak
Reader: Dea. Radheka Savoy

 

 

 

Sunday, March 6, 2022
6:17 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 5:30
Gate: 6:10
Sunrise: 6:32
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

 

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Races of Man    Rev. Greg Klinedinst
Church of  the Americas  Dea. Radheka Savoy
Church of  the New Covenant  Dea. Gary Huss Jr.

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 9, 2022
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Rev. Noriko Roy

 

 

Friday, March 11, 2022
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Rebecca Willis

 



WEEKLY MESSAGE: March 2, 2022

 

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

 

 

 

 

March 2, 2022

The Twenty-second Saying (Part 5)

“And the male Companion of The Way further asked, ‘Is a person in a state of perfect prayer open to revelation?’ The Man answered, ‘Yes, I would say so,’ and then continued. ‘Jesus preached in parables to the initiates, the neophytes, and the public. He spoke to the disciples in words they could understand because they were living The Way. Jesus taught that God the Father is the Savior, the Redeemer, and the Restorer of Mankind. He always referred to God as being the Father. He always acknowledged a higher power than himself. And when he passed away on the cross he said, “Unto thee, Father, I commend my spirit.” The spirit, having been created and reborn by God, was returned to God.

“‘Jesus taught that the body of flesh does not inherit the Kingdom of God; only the Body of Spirit does. Thus this world, with all its prayers and churches and power, is nothing because everything passes away in time. The only immortality is in the spirit, and a person should devote all one’s life to restoring that.

“‘To reiterate, according to the ancient Teachings, the Sun of Righteousness was the True Image of God. And God caused that Image to manifest, and that image was filled with His Word, and that was the First-Born of God, His First Son sent into the world.

“‘As man and woman looked upon the Sun of Righteousness after having learned to live The Way – they had to be taught how to live that Way by a Teacher, an inspired Teacher, Prophet or Holy Person of God – and were created anew in spirit, they became Images of the Image of the Sun of Righteousness. That was the true means by which a person would ascend to the Godhead, because God does not manifest in the world of the senses.

“‘There are two kinds of religion. One, the religion of the earth – the religion of the popular churches – teaches the parables of Jesus though they are misunderstood because the inner truths are not known. It is thus a religion of the senses, of the mind, of the psyche; and this religion has nothing at all to do with the spirit that is in each person. Those practicing this religion mistakenly believe that Jesus, or some other Holy Teacher, can save them, or that their rites and rituals, ceremony, liturgy, sacraments will be heard by God. Yet Jesus insisted: “You must be born again. Your spirit must be filled with the Image and the Word of God. Only then does God recognize you, and will you be able to hear the Word of God. Once you hear it and are filled with the Image, you then must live The Way. And in living The Way, you will then walk with God.”

“‘Revelation is revealed to those few Holy Ones inspired to found a new religion, or to restore an older one in progressive religious evolution until the world is redeemed. It is the object of True Religion, through its disciples, to make clear the One Teaching and the One Truth, for there is only One Teaching and One Truth, just as there is but One Way to this One Teaching and One Truth. Teachers ordained in the One Doctrine who explain the Teaching and the Truth and instruct the world in The Way must be cautious of those who have private revelations, or of those who innovate upon sacred scripture and interpret sacred things and found vain doctrines. The ordained Teachers must dissuade such individuals with courtesy and decorum, so they will not lead the goodly astray.

“‘False teachings, misrepresentations of the One Truth, often lead to complex combinations of teachings that give the illusion that there are many Truths in the world, when in fact there is but One. The disciple must be able to condemn such false ideas, not authorize or condone them when conversing with students who come to the School.

“‘Error, like Evil, leads Man astray and away from God. Truths of the mind and the material world, like truths of the psyche and the psychic world, are not Truth of Spirit. The student should be careful of which path he or she is pursuing: the earthly, the psychic, or the spiritual. The former two are not related with the latter and should be quickly dismissed, by both teacher and student, from their conversation.’”

Again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene
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